Combination glove manufacture



May 31, 1932. M. McKlNLEY 1,861,280

COMBINATION GLOVE MANUFACTURE Filed Jan. 15, 1931 Patented May 31, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TO INDIANAPOLIS GLOVE COM- CORPORATION OF INDIANA COMBINATION GLOVE MANUFACTURE Application filed January 15, 1931.

This invention relates to hand wear manufacture.

This invention has utility when incorporated in fabric gloves or gloves of leather or other facing material and fabric lined for a portion thereof.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, with parts broken away, of an embodiment of the invention 4 herein disclosed;

Fig. 2 is a view of a grouping of lining blanks for the palm portion of the glove of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view of a grouping of glove back blanks for the glove of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a view of the back of the glove of Fig. 1.

On fabric 1, of sheet material say set up for a plurality of plies, the glove lining palm 2 and glove back 3 may be grouped for minimum of waste not only transversely but longitudinally of the strip material. To this end adjacent base of index finger 4 is outwardly stepped widening portions 5, adjacent which is narrowing complementary stepped portion 6 in the region of the base of thumb 7 These steps 5, 6, as to adjacent palm blank 2, permit opposite interfitting in transverse grouping cutting economy not only as to the transverse extent but also in approximately a mean crosswise centering for the respective blanks 2 in this transverse series.

Additionally there is maintained efficiency for the lining 2, notwithstanding thumb portion 7 has cut away portion 8. This allows clearance for portion of index finger 4 with notch 9 in index finger 4 and notch 10 in middle finger 11 combining to form a notch for receiving therein complemental or fractional residual portion of the thumb 7. This means that besides the economy effected in the interfitting blanks of the palm 2, there is, between these transverse series of the blanks 2 in their succession along the strip material 1, economy in the interfitting cutting of the blanks for the thumb, index and middle finger. These combined economies amount to from 6 to 9 per cent of material saving, and accordingly are of importance in this manufacture of a Serial No. 508,857.

staple product wherein the cost and comfort nothing from effected economy.

As to the hand back blanks 3, shown as units, index finger back 12 is shown with clearance cut-out 13. Middle finger back 14, as to its fragment, interfits third finger back 15 so that these hand backs, as abutting in the transverse series extent, longitudinally interfit in the complemental, fractional tip portions 14:, 15, meaning a cutting economy here in the region of 6 per cent, while there is suflicient of this hand back to permit stitching 16 to tack such into comfortable holding in efi'ective wear relation with facing 17 of the hand back finger tips and palm facing 18. Accordingly this glove, as finished up with wrist 19, is of full size and of efiicient wearing properties as the fabric of which it is composed, with nothing detracted therefrom due to the cutting economies effective as herein disclosed. The clearance 13 avoids interference from the linin in the closing of the leather or facing to tie first finger.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A pair of glove back lining blanks having an index finger of one terminally abutting the little finger of the other as to each of said blanks, and the intermediate fingers having termini of complementally fractional width respectively interfitting.

2. A glove blank palm having a thumb digit portion extending from the thumb base, an integral finger digit portion extending from the opposite side of the blank from the thumb, two of said finger digits having a notch formed therebetween, said thumb digit being fractional laterally of its tip and complementally interfitting into said notch.

In witness whereof I affix my signature.

MELVIN MoKINLEY. 

